After Dexter’s pencil rolls to the back of the school bus, Dexter goes to retrieve it, but legend says that no one has ever returned from the back of the bus.
Dexter accidentally gives himself telepathy that he cannot shut off when trying to overhear his father’s thoughts to figure out what he got for his birthday, causing everyone to accidentally read his own mind.
After staying up late at his lab, Dexter oversleeps, waking up one minute before his school bus arrives. With no time to do his morning chores and homework, he pulls out a secret prototype device, which converts his last 30 seconds into 30 minutes.
Banned from watching a late-night movie due to his young age, Dexter uses his technology to artificially grow into adulthood, but Dee Dee tampers with his machine, causing Dexter to turn into an old man.
After Dee Dee declares that she can beat Dexter in any game, Dexter challenges her to a series of games in his lab, though he prefers to win by cheating.
Not interested in hearing Dee Dee’s long-winded story, Dexter gives her a silencing formula to keep her quiet, but it instead turns her into a giant monster still bent on telling her story. When he realizes that nothing can make her quiet, he becomes a giant monster himself.
Dexter tries to prove to Dee Dee that Santa Claus is not real and is in fact their father in disguise. He ends up paying for his mistake when he has captured the real Santa Claus.
Dexter’s father sleepwalks into Dexter’s lab. Dexter discovers this, and now has to escort him out of the lab without waking him up, which proves more difficult than thought.
Dexter’s father is challenged to an arm wrestling match by a man named Earl at a truck stop. Stunned at the strength of Earl and his determination to beat his father, Dexter attaches a robotic arm to his father to enable him to win.
